Inspiron 510m & i855

[Ow Mun Heng]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alexander Ruoff [mailto:alexander.ruoff at ruoff-germany.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 12:12 AM
> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Inspiron 510m & i855
> 
> 
> Just have a question...
> 
> I do have some problems with my Inspiron 510m and Linux.
> 
> FC1 gives me the "greenscreen", FC2tr1 has the same problem 
> and thus I 
> tried it with SuSE where I get only 640x instead of 1024x.
> 
> I found some websites which explained various ways to fix 
> this problem 
> of the Bios, but all I managed to do was preventing the laptop from 
> crashing when I test the screen.
> 

Can you hop by tuxmobil.org?? And check out the Dell section there?
I've taken a look and they do have a working solution.

I'm on a D600 so I can't help you much there.

> Once, I managed to test it on 1024 but after the reboot, I am still 
> stuck with 640. But now, the PC gives me only vga driver 
> instead of the 
> i855. I tried various patches (maybe one to much?) but except that X 
> seems to be more stable, all I get is the following error message:
> 
> X-Server-Test fehlgeschlagen
> 
> (ww) Open APM failed (/dev/apm_bios) (No such device)
> (KK) No driver available
> 
> First thing I care is how I get the Inspiron to mork on 1024 
> and than I 
> try to get FC1 running. Problem is that I have no Idea how to 
> compile a 
> Kernel and if that would solve the problem, since it's apparently a 
> fault of the bios. I am also too "fresh" with Linux thus I 
> believe that 
> I mixed various solutions to solve the problem which might cause 
> additional problems.
> 
> It's funny that my old K6 with 96 MB runs great with 
> FC1/Gnome (no, it's 
> not slow) but I can't get a proper resolution on a new 
> Laptop. Anyway, 
> thanks in advance for any help ;)
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
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